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  1. Tim O'Brien _ Tomcat In Love

    I am forever astonished at the longevity of childhood. How it never ends. How we are what we were. How turtles and engines and stolen kisses leave their jet trail across our gaping lives.
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  2. Tim O'Brien _ Tomcat In Love

    I heard water evaporating. I heard the tick of my own biology.
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  3. Tim O'Brien _ Tomcat In Love

    But this, too, was a performance.
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  4. Tim O'Brien _ Tomcat In Love

    Mrs. Kooshof's intolerance for complexity, for the looping circuitry of a well-told tale, symptomizes an epidemic disease of our modern world. {I see it daily among my students. The short attention span, the appetite limited to linearity. Too much Melrose Place.}
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  5. Tim O'Brien _ Tomcat In Love

    {My sole fond memory from this period is of a rubbery little Appalachian number by the name of June. Acrobatic tongue. Tooth decay. Illiterate in everything but love.}
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  6. Tim O'Brien _ Tomcat In Love

    Can a word stop your heart as surely as arsenic?
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  7. Tim O'Brien _ Tomcat In Love

    What is love, for God's sake, if not the most distilled obsession?
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  8. Tim O'Brien _ Tomcat In Love

    Every dark cloud may well have its silver lining, but I have come to learn that every silver lining has its dark consequences.
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  9. Tim O'Brien _ Tomcat In Love

    The days seemed to stretch out toward infinity, blank and humid, without purpose, and at night I was kept awake by the endless drone of mosquitoes and helicopters. {Why wars must be contested under such conditions I shall never understand. Is not death sufficient?}
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  10. Tim O'Brien _ Tomcat In Love

    Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
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  11. Tim O'Brien _ Tomcat In Love

    Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.
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  12. Tim O'Brien _ Tomcat In Love

    The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory."
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